LEADER 04169oam 22005413- 450 001 9910220514003321 005 20251116173024.0 010 $a91-88168-79-4 024 7 $a10.21525/kriterium.8 035 $a(CKB)4100000000641172 035 $a(OAPEN)637892 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34196 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000641172 100 $a20190205d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aswe 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aRiksäpplet : Arkeologiska perspektiv på ett bortglömt regalskepp 210 $aGothenburg$cKriterium$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (224) 311 08$a91-88661-20-2 330 $a"Riksäpplet deals with a shipwreck that has a neglected position in the grand narrative of the history of the Swedish navy. The story of its destiny and the missing accounts in scholarly and popular works in history says something about heritage processes within Swedish maritime archaeology. On 5 June 1676 Riksäpplet came loose and adrift from its moorings outside Dalarö Sea fortress. The hull struck a rock and sank. The loss was considered both ignominious and embarrassing and the ship?s fate has been overlooked in all major history books. The rock onto which Riksäpplet sank was named ?Äpplet? after the incident, and the wreck itself has become an integrated component of the underwater seascape. As a consequence the wreckage has never enjoyed a proper ?discovery? or undergone documentation under the sensational forms that many other famous shipwrecks have, even though they have sunk in more inconvenient places. In Eriksson?s study the official handling of Riksäpplet?s wrecked body is compared to the more wellknown ships Kronan and Svärdet, which both sank during battle only days before. Eriksson draws on different motifs and driving forces behind the study of naval wrecks from the period from his comparison, and the differences are discussed. Riksäpplet has never achieved a prominent position with the romanticising works of history that honour the national heroes and their deeds which are associated with this era of the Swedish Empire. The first half of the book thus sets out to unpack the ideas that have led to the relative disinterest in Riksäpplet in comparison to other shipwrecks. The second half of the book sets out to analyse Riksäpplet from a specific archaeological perspective, with focus on the ship as material culture. Eriksson?s departure is to explore the relatively low budget fieldwork that has been done at the wreck site. He the combines those facts with a survey of the artefacts recovered from the wreck, of which all are kept in museum archives and private collections. This, in addition to his studies of preserved written correspondence concerning the construction of the ship, has brought new insights into seventeenth-century shipbuilding and how the balance between the global political superpowers affected this trade. In this context Riksäpplet has great potential to show how military alliances are materialized through ships? architecture. 606 $aHistory$2bicssc 606 $aEarly modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700$2bicssc 606 $aArchaeology$2bicssc 606 $aUnderwater archaeology$2bicssc 606 $aArchaeological science, methodology & techniques$2bicssc 606 $aMilitary & naval ships$2bicssc 607 $aStockholm (Sweden)$xAntiquities 610 $aearly modern period 610 $aswedish empire 610 $ashipbuilding 610 $asalvage 610 $ashipwreck 610 $abaltic sea 615 7$aHistory 615 7$aEarly modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 615 7$aArchaeology 615 7$aUnderwater archaeology 615 7$aArchaeological science, methodology & techniques 615 7$aMilitary & naval ships 700 $aEriksson$b Niklas$4aut$0975965 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910220514003321 996 $aRiksäpplet : Arkeologiska perspektiv på ett bortglömt regalskepp$92222402 997 $aUNINA